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It will burn through stockpiles at a rate that is wholly unsustainable. They're complex, uber expensive and not easy to build. It's not like they're cans of soda rolling of the assembly line by the millions. The infrastructure itself to ramp would take months to years to create. Plus, there's not guarantee that Donnie can get much of a DoD increase through Congress with this grossly unpopular war hanging around his neck. The price of a super duper high tech military. It's been known since forever that a peer or even a serious near peer conflict would burn through a whole shit ton of cash really, really, really, really fast. And then what? 
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